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Detroit Police Department
BOOKS
Non- Fiction
Provides facts and accounts of the city from the people who live there
The officers had real, real long rifles.
It was like the army or something
on Jefferson [Avenue].
Like an invasion.
MARCO FREEMAN, resident of Detroit’s East Side, quoted in Mark Jay,
“Policing the Poor in Detroit,” 2017
In 2013 Emergency Manager Orr estimated
that the police's average response time to emergency calls was fifty-eight minutes.
DPD's prominent role in maintaining and legitimating a deeply unequal and
unjust Detroit is nothing new.
Similar themes
in 2016 the city spent $547 per capita
on police; that same year, per capita spending on food stamps in Michigan was
less than $21
A 2013 ACLU report details that,
Downtown, homeless people are “being approached and harassed by police,
not necessarily for anything they’re doing, but just because of the way that
they look.
Emphasizes the importance of the police department in the city
Books
Fiction
August Snow
Son of African American father and Mexican-American mother
Ex-Detroit Police Officer who fought the DPD against corrupt cops and politicians and won $12 million wrongful dismissal settlement
Similar theme in STRESS and the stories of
A People's History of Detroit
: corruption
Wants justice for what was done to him and wants to preserve his hometown
Films
RoboCop
Future-dystopia Detroit; a corpse is converted into RoboCop, a powerful robot cop programmed to protect the city
The city is still crime-ridden, even in the distant future and the only hope is RoboCop
Blue Collar
3 auto-industry working men; two black, and one white- all fed up with management and their union
they want to get back at 'the man' and the unjust system for hardworking people
the bad guys in this film are the government agents, the autoworkers' union and plant owners
STRESS
a police unit created to reduce crime in Detroit; decoy units that targeted African Americans
led to the deaths of twenty-two African-American men over the course of three and a half years
Ultimately eliminated by Mayor Young after three years of violence
a People's History of Detroit
